John Dos Passos Quotes

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

I love irony.

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice.

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

It is difficult not to write satire.

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.